Alliance Health at Devereux

Updated May 1, 2022 by Nick Reese

Historical Rating

39 Lafayette Street,
Marblehead MA 01945

80.31% estimated occupancy ¹

Alliance Health at Devereux is a small non-profit facility located in Marblehead, Massachusetts. This facility is ranked among the highest-rated facilities we assessed. This nursing home was given one of the best scores we offer. In fact, this facility has the prestigious distinction of being one of the 100 best facilities in Massachusetts. This is an impressive achievement in a state with a long list of elite facilities. This nursing home also received very consistent ratings in all of the major categories we assessed. Additional information about these categories is available below.

Quick Details

Accepts Medicare ¹
Accepts Medicaid ¹
No
Has Resident Council
No Family Council
Non profit - Corporation

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Facility Inspections

To go along with a strong overall grade, we awarded this place an A+ for our inspection category. Inspection grades account for a host of factors included in a nursing home's inspection reports. One of the most important criteria we weigh heavily is the quantity and severity of deficiencies. Facilities with higher grades in this category usually have very few of these severe deficiencies. This nursing home received 4 deficiencies on its inspection report, but none of the deficiencies were considered severe. This tells you that the inspectors did not deem any of these deficiencies to be an immediate threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

Short-term Care Quality

This facility also was given a fine short-term care grade. In fact, this ended up being this nursing home's second most impressive category grade. In that area, we gave this facility a grade of A. Our short-term care ratings are probably more important for residents requiring rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires additional skilled nursing. This includes not merely nursing services, but also physical and occupational therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. This nursing home provides more services with physical therapists and registered nurses than most facilities we looked at. This is usually an excellent sign. Finally, we looked at the number of patients who ultimately were able to return home from this facility. In addition to excelling in the area of physical therapy staffing, we found that it performed as well as just about any nursing home in the country with 68.2 percent of its patients returning home. Most nursing homes are below 50 percent in this metric.

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Nurse Quality

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A-. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. The nursing rating is based on several subcategories, however, the main one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 3.4 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Lastly, we also looked at a few quality-based metrics in determining our nursing grades. This facility excelled in these areas, with excellent scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are generally reliable indicators of the quality of nursing care a nursing home provides.

Long-term Care Quality

The final category we rated is long-term care, where this facility was given a B+. This finished off a very impressive profile. Not many facilities received a B+ or higher in every single category. For prospective patients in need of a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are an important measure. One of the data points we considered in addition to nursing hours was vaccinations. This facility administered the pneumonia vaccination to 90.551186 percent of its patients. Clearly, this place is doing something right in this area as it also excelled at keeping its patients out of the hospital. In fact, it had only 0.6 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Rating Over Time

Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.

Alliance Health at Devereux Quality Metrics

Minimizes Pressure Ulcers

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 6.42% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers

This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients who developed pressure ulcers or bed sores. We use this statistic in calculating both nursing and long-term care grades.

Minimizes Serious Falls

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 3.57% of Patients had Serious Falls

This datapoint gauges the percent of long-term stay residents who had falls which resulted in serious injury. This is one of the statistics we use in calculating our nursing grades.

Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 2.4% of Patients had UTIs

This tells you the percent of patients that sustained a urinary tract infection. UTI's are often caused by facilities with worst hygiene practices. Better hygiene protocols minimizes the percentage of residents in a nursing home who suffer from UTI's. Keep in mind that this statistic is sometimes skewed by the fact that nursing homes have incongruent reporting standards for these infections.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 19.12% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication

This indicates the percent of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic medications are given to residents for a variety of conditions, including dementia. Tragically, in some cases, excessive reliance on these medications may indicate that a facility is using these drugs to subdue residents.

Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 19% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication

This indicates the percentage of patients given antianxiety medications. These drugs are generally prescribed to residents experiencing depression and anxiety.

Managing Depression Among Residents

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 1.96% of Patients

This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term residents demonstrating symptoms of depression.

Appropriate Vaccine Usage

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 91.59% of Patients

This datapoint is a measure of the percent of long-term patients that were vaccinated against pneumonia and flu.

Residents Maintain Autonomy

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 15.22% Percentage of Patients

This is the percentage of patients that needed more assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with ADL's may indicate the decline of a patient's well-being.

Ability to Keep Residents Mobile

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 19.05% Percentage of Residents

Measures the percent of long-term patients that remained mobile levels. Many in the industry argue that mobility is vital to patients well-being.

Hospitalizations

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 1.24 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days

This is the number of hospitalizations per 1,000 days of care.

Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 19.05 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized

This is the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care. There is usually a correlation between having fewer hospitalizations and a nursing homes short-term rehabilitation performance.

Short-term Care: ER Visits

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 10.96 Percentage of Patients

This tells you the number of times residents are sent to the emergency room per 1,000 days of short-term patient care.

Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement

In Alliance Health at Devereux, 70.74% Percentage of Resident

This indicates the percent of short-term stay patients who experienced functional improvements, such as enhanced ability to perform activities of daily living.

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Cambridge Health AllianceAcute Care Hospitals 14.36 miles away1493 Cambridge Street Cambridge Massachusetts 02138Government - Local(617) 665-2300

Nearby Dialysis

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